Newly confirmed Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner, Martin O’Malley, held a virtual Labor Roundtable Meeting this week with the agency’s unions, including the Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 1).
Read MoreIFPTE President Matt Biggs remarked, “Governor O’Malley’s swift confirmation and strong bipartisan support serve as a testament to his lifetime of service, putting outcomes and results over political considerations.”
Read MoreWith the Senate wrapping up for the Senate’s 2023 session, IFPTE and the Association of Administrative Law Judges-IFPTE Judicial Council 1 urged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and all Senators to confirm former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley to be the next Commissioner of the Social Security Administration.
Read MoreNearly 200 members and leaders from the Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 1) gathered in New Orleans, Louisiana to attend the union’s 2023 Education Conference.
Read MoreThe executive officers of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers and the president of the Association of Administrative Law Judges-IFPTE Judicial Council 1 express their strong support for the nomination of former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley to lead the Social Security Administration
Read MoreThis week, IFPTE reached out to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate to urge, in the strongest terms possible, to avoid a government shutdown and pass a fiscal year (FY) 2023 government funding budget that supports the priorities and needs of working Americans and retirees.
Read MoreOver 160 members and leaders from the Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ/Judicial Council 1) gathered in Atlanta to attend the union’s 2022 Education Conference.
Read MoreThis week the Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ)-Judicial Council 1 leadership and IFPTE president Matt Biggs met with Social Security Administration Acting (SSA) Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi.
Read MoreThis week, the American Prospect reported on the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) anti-union arrangement where non-union administrative law judges (ALJs) who the same work and are hired off of identical position descriptions as their union counterparts, but are excluded from the Association of Administrative Law Judges-IFPTE Judicial Council 1 (AALJ) bargaining unit.
Read MoreIFPTE Judicial Council 1/AALJ President, Judge Som Ramrup, informed her members this week of a significant win for AALJ members.
Read MorePresident Biden fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul and Deputy Commissioner David Black. The Biden Administration’s decision to change comes after calls for their removal by IFPTE and the Association of Administrative Law Judges-Judicial Council 1.
Read MoreFinding that the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) conduct during contract negotiations with the Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ), Judicial Council 1 was “tantamount to saying, ‘I’m taking my ball and going home,’” an arbitrator issued a ruling this week slamming the agency.
Read MoreThe Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ), which is in a contentious labor dispute with the Social Security Administration (SSA), is strongly pushing back against what it calls SSA Acting Commissioner Andrew Saul’s erroneous description of employee-labor relations.
Read MoreThe Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 1) has been in an ongoing labor dispute with the Social Security Administration (SSA). The union reports that it is extremely disappointed with the agency’s latest rejection of its contract offer. AALJ offered to resume negotiations if the agency would withdraw what it called a Trump-era union-busting order from the Federal Service Impasses Panel to impose nine disputed articles of the contract. SSA and AALJ-IFPTE have reached agreement on another 20 articles.
Read MoreThe Senate Social Finance Committee held a hearing entitled, “Social Security During COVID: How the Pandemic Hampered Access to Benefits and Strategies for Improving Service Delivery.”
Read MoreIFPTE and AFGE sent a joint request the Biden Administration today, alerting the President that, “under the leadership of Commissioner Saul and Deputy Commissioner Black, SSA has achieved the distinction of being one of the most anti-labor agencies in the entire federal government.”
Read MoreFollowing the Association of Administration Law Judges and AFGE Council 220’s overwhelming votes of no confidence in the SSA leaders, IFPTE and AFGE issued a joint statement regarding the SSA Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner.
Read MoreJudge Melissa McIntosh, president of JC1, recently responded to the Social Security Administration’s latest attempt to erode the constitutional due process protections of disability claimants
Read MoreThe SSA moved to implement the FLRA’s union busting policy dealing with the collection of union dues, while concurrently attempting to illegally and unilaterally impose a partial a collective bargaining agreement onto the Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ), IFPTE Judicial Council 1.
Read MoreIn light of the Social Security Administration's (SSA) continued cutbacks to employee telework, even during the coronavirus health crisis, the three Senators wrote to SSA Commissioner Saul this week, urging him to reverse course on the cuts.
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